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Topic: FBI jets for war on terror
used for top officials´
personal, business travel |
FBI jets for war on terror
used for top officials´
personal, business travel
Washington Guardian, by John Solomon
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Posted By:MissMolly, 2/28/2013 9:12:01 AM
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| Two corporate-style jets that the FBI persuaded Congress to lease for fighting global terrorism have instead been used the majority of the time to ferry Attorney General Eric Holder, his predecessor in the Bush administration and FBI Director Robert Mueller on business and personal trips at an expense of millions of dollars to taxpayers, an investigation has found. The bureau´s state-the-art, sleek Gulfstream V jets logged 60 percent of their hours between 2007 and 2011 on "non-mission flights" that cost taxpayers $11.4 million, according to an investigation
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Distorted, 2/28/2013 9:53:31 AM (No. 9200716)
Just imagine how much Gaia-killing green house gas those personal trips have released into our atmosphere unnecessarily? Oh, the horror.
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